I've always been a little curious about what a developerWorks zone editor does all day. I've imagined they must have some secret knowledge about the world of developers and what makes them tick. So I was looking forward to hearing from Barbara Wetmore , the...

This is the live feed for Chris Walden's broadcasts. You can catch them by following @sxswdw or Chris's own feed @cmw_osdude . Schedule and archives are below. Live streaming by Ustream Videos will also be uploaded to Chris's YouTube Channel .

Alas! LinuxCon has begun and I'm stuck here, up to my-- well... never you mind! I'm just not there this year. However, conventions about opensource things are increasingly friendly to virtual participation, so maybe I'll be able to look in a little. Today...

I was catching up on my slashdot articles and found an interesting
note about a major computer manufacturer (hint: you'll find out who
it is if you follow the links) who has been dancing in and out of the closet issue about
supporting Linux as a viable...

As everyone knows by now, last Thursday, Oracle filed suit against Google for patent infringement (as if they didn't have enough to worry about with backlash from their proposal with Verizon!). Specifically, the suit claims that Android's Dalvik VM was created...

It's been awhile since I gave an update on the EGL open source project. As many of you know, at the Rational conference in June, IBM and 7 partners announced plans to create an open source project for the EGL language, compilers, and subset of tools and...

When it comes to open source software there are usually two
main perspectives (among several other opinions!) on its value. One is that the software is “free” (that is,
there is typically not a license cost) and that is good for the consumer. The other...

This week I'm bringing you an interview with Jason Clark , a software engineer at IBM developerWorks. Jason's passionate about many topics in technology and I was excited when I saw him start a new blog recently because I know he's got a lot to bring to the...

This week get to know Allen Montejo as he shares what he's been working on as a J2EE application developer and what the IT industry is like in the Philippines. He's definitely inspiring as he looks at ways that technology can improve the world! Tell me about...

If you are a Firefox user, you may have heard about the vulnerability
discovered which could allow malicious web sites to steal passwords that
you have stored in your password safe. You didn't know that? It could
suck. I don't have the details, but...

Here's some fun news: " Gartner Says
Android to Become No. 2 Worldwide Mobile Operating System in 2010 and
Challenge Symbian for No. 1 Position by 2014 ." I moved to a smart phone within the last year. In the past I hadn't
really needed one. When...

This week, I'm bringing you an interview with Chris Walden, the new developerWorks Open Source zone editor who is doing quite a bit of interesting work around open source software on My developerWorks. Learn more about Chris and join in on the open source...

This
question was asked in a developerWorks forum ...
but it looked like it was going to turn into more than a simple
answer... so I moved it here to share with more people. Congratulations on discovering the importance and opportunity in
Open
Source...

I got the title of this article as a question through a private Facebook message. I decided that this is probably something that a lot of people are thinking about, so I figured I'd post my thoughts here. (I've also been very sparse at writing here so...

Executive summary : Take the OSLC 2012 Community Survey and encourage your colleagues to do the same, because it is good for
the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration community and it is good
for you. Share and discuss the survey using #OSLCSurvey on...

Andrew Glover -- developer, author, speaker, entrepreneur -- and the developerWorks Java zone introduce a new technical podcast series. Follow the technically curious Glover each week as he provides a new way to input knowledge from the sources you trust most....

(updated 2/20/2013) NOTE: As of February 2013 I am no longer the editor for Linux and Open Source on developerWorks. Don't worry! I didn't get fired or anything. I got rolled into a new team which draws upon all the skills I applied on developerWorks as...

I was poking around on some information about OpenSim for an author and stumbled across a video about using a Wii remote to create a low-cost Multi-touch Whiteboard . Wow! I admit that I'd never given a whole lot of thought about how the Wii remote works. ...

I'm sure that all of you are focused individuals. I'm sure that all of you see tasks clearly laid before you and that you systematically work your way through them with the persistence of a census-taker... each one in turn until all the jobs are done. How...

I was at an event this weekend. It was a non-technical event with a group of artists. One of them had designed something which could be customized and had a DVD showing exactly how to recreate what he was doing. On the DVD he included a PhotoShop template...

For those of you who are following the EGL open source project on Eclipse (you may have read about it in an earlier EGL Cafe blog The open era for EGL begins today ), we're excited to announce the availability of our second incubator release, EGL Web Developer...

While it's not the most original question, it's something that I think about given what seems is the the introduction of a new programming language every day. Does the world really need Go , D , or Ceylon ? When I was 13, I received a TRS-80 system with...

Let the coding begin! IBM and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have announced the start of the regional competitions that will lead to the finals of the 31st International Collegiate Programming Contest. From now through December of this year,...

Today I published an article to developerWorks that describes how our team was able to extend RFT to allow us to more consistently recognize the GUI objects in a Flex/Flash application. As you probably know RFT does come out of the box with Flex application...

In the continuing action on the patent battlefield, a recent announcement declares that " German appeals court upholds Microsoft Long File Name patent ." This is the sort of thing that caused problems for TomTom and is
likely to cause problems for...

As I mentioned in my update on April 26, 2009, I think blogging is a
great way to catch up on all the day-to-day personal to-dos that you
just can't seem to get to anymore (especially since you're now spending
all your time blogging). I just realized that...

I haven't been writing so much over the last few weeks. There are good reasons for it, but nothing that would particularly interest my average reader. Rest to say that I am living in interesting times. There's nothing really bad going on, but interesting...

There's a lot going on in 2010. It's a new year, a new decade, and, for me, a new look at my role in developerWorks. Since 2008 I have been the editor of the Web Development zone, which I have found to be very rewarding. I love being exposed to all of the...

Uh, could somebody tell me where my desk is? My blog? My job? Sorry, what is it that I do for a living again? My profuse apologies, but I'm having a terribly difficult time getting back into the swing of full-time employment after a scandalously terrific...

Vive LibreOffice! I've used OpenOffice.org since it was known as Star Office. (That's
been a while.) When it was absorbed into the Sun umbrella, I wasn't
sure what to expect, but Sun seemed to be a pretty good steward of the
project, even creating a...

If you’re anything like me, you can’t imagine going anywhere without your mobile phone; today’s devices are more than telephones, they are our cameras, our wallets, our libraries and even our fitness partners. There’s no shortage of...

VID#1 VID#2 VID#3 Fighting fraud with Big Data | various durations These videos, part of the Fighting Fraud Fridays, show you how i2 data analytics products can help you fight fraud in your industry. In VID#1, you learn how to fight internal money laundering...

Good news! Yesterday, IBM won the Netflix Open Source Software (OSS) Cloud Prize for the Best Cloud Application. It is fantastic to see the industry’s recognition of our leadership in innovating cloud native applications and the...

My new Twitter follower Robin Mulkers (mulkers) pointed me to a
great article written by Jeremy Allison ,
a major contributor to Samba, about the demise of Sun and how their
decisions about how to handle their open-source contributions may have
been...

Independent expert M. Tim Jones takes you on a tour of testing your applications for security capabilities during the development and verification phase , focusing on code that you can touch, test, and inspect manually, as well as code that is perfect for...

Just a quick one today: One of the problems that open source software has in gaining traction is that it's not plastered through magazines, billboards and television commercials. Be snide about it if you want, but most open source projects are about getting...

VIDEO Agile: Embrace the pain, embrace the change | 3:27 IBM Champion and co-founder of UPMentors Julian Holmes expounds on identifying the pain points when it comes to adopting agile methods for software development; one of the toughest to overcome is getting...

IBM has just re-committed to its strategy on open standards. At the Pulse 2013 conference, the company announced its plan to make all of its cloud services and software based on open standards. Up first, IBM will roll out new private cloud offerings based on...